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  • The organism which obtain their energy from chemicals are designated as


  • Options
  • A. prototrophs
  • B. chemotrophs
  • C. organotrophs
  • D. autotrophs

  • Correct Answer
  • chemotrophs 


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    • 1. A synergistic effect is observed when

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    • A. one organism removes an inhibitory substance for another
    • B. one organism produces a growth factor utilized by another
    • C. microbial alteration of pH, aw, Eh favours the growth of another
    • D. all of the above
    • Discuss
    • 2. Pseudomonas pseudoflava can grow as

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    • A. chemo-lithotrophs
    • B. chemo-organotrophs
    • C. both (a) and (b)
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 3. Starvation proteins are produced by a culture during which of the following segments of the growth curve?

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    • A. Lag phase
    • B. Exponential phase
    • C. Stationary phase
    • D. Death phase
    • Discuss
    • 4. The term facultative anaerobe refers to an organism that

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    • A. doesn't use oxygen but tolerates it
    • B. is killed by oxygen
    • C. uses oxygen when present or grows without oxygen when absent
    • D. requires less oxygen than is present in air
    • Discuss
    • 5. A microbe, which grows at temperatures above 95° C is most likely to be

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    • A. an archaean
    • B. a fungus
    • C. a protozoan
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss
    • 6. Organisms such as lactobacilli that have elaborate requirements for specific nutrients i.e. vitamins and other growth promoting substances, are generally called as

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    • A. fastidious hetrotrophs
    • B. chemo-lithotrophs
    • C. chemotrophs
    • D. photo-organotrophs
    • Discuss
    • 7. The growth is normally expressed as __________ in turbidimetric measurement

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    • A. cells per ml
    • B. cfu/ml
    • C. optical density
    • D. mg N2 /ml
    • Discuss
    • 8. The equation used to obtain bacterial population by binary fission is

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    • A. N = No2n
    • B. log N/No = (0.3010) n
    • C. log(N/No) = nlog 2
    • D. All of these
    • Discuss
    • 9. In the exponential phase, the cells and cell mass

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    • A. first increases then decreases
    • B. decreases
    • C. are constant
    • D. double at a constant rate
    • Discuss
    • 10. Bacteria and fungi multiply best

    • Options
    • A. below 16°C
    • B. between 16-38°C
    • C. above 38°C
    • D. none of these
    • Discuss


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